Can thermography see my bones and organs?
What the thermal image reflects is skin blood flow. We don’t see any organs, any depth into the body or any conducted heat from deeper structures or underlying inflammation. Any thermal patterns we do see reflect the body’s surface temperature as a neural response to whatever is going on beneath, which could be inflammation, lymph congestion or angiogenesis. Thermography works because the skin, as an organ, is totally under the control of sympathetic nerve function and thermography provides a snapshot of the body’s response on the skin surface to any disease or injury. So for example, for young women who are wisely health-conscious or, at the other end of the spectrum, concerned about the effects of lifestyle habits like smoking or drinking, thermography clearly fills a gap in the standard diagnostic screening process.
